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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
Fishing for Sword Fish.

AT Martha's Vineyard sword fishing is
getting to be the favorite amusement.
A beginner grows enthusiastic the first
year over perch, the second season he
essays a trip or two of black bass fishing,
while the third season he conquers blue
fish and seasickness sufficiently to enter
the senior class of sword fishermen, who
are whalers in miniature. The require
ments of this grand sport are calm sea,
plenty of fins showing above it and
cautious captain who can creep up care
fully and quietly enough to give the man
in the lookout q chance to show his skill
in throwing a harpoon. If it strikes the
fish line of fifty fathoms is played out,
with an empty keg on the end to buoy it,
and while the party are in search of an
other fin and tail the wounded fish fin
ishes his fiuking, and with his unfortu-
nate brothers is gathered up after the
sport is over. Many of these fish weigh
$50 pounds, and they are delicious
table delicacy.-Philadelphia Call.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
A Governor for the People.

The Vermont State Grange having
petitioned the Governor to appoint
counsel to aid it in presenting before
the Interstate commerce commission,
at it's session to be held at Rutland
next month, the interests of the
grange and people, it is said that the
Governor will comply, and that he
will appoint Hon. Kittredge Haskins
of Brattleboro. This will be most
excellent appointment for, Col. Has
kins, besides being one of the ablest
lawyers in the State, is not fettered
by any railroad alliances, but is de-
cidedly a man of and for the people.
The Rural Velmonter saws that
Col. Haskins is engaged in preparing
the case and that Hon. Geo. f. Ed
munds has signified a willingness to
make the argument. This move ment
is in response to the invitation of the
Interstate committee and only griev-
ances known to exist affecting the
general welfare of the State will be
presented. This action of Gov.
Ormsbee confirms the opinion of him
held and expressed by the SITTER
prior to his election that he was not
entangled by railroad alliances and
would not be put in leading strings by
the Smith faction.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
Robbery.

Last spring q Wardsboro farmer
purchased hay tedder and a harrow
at Chicopee, Mass. and had the same
shipped to Wardsboro Station. He
sends us his freight bill. 1t reads,
''For freight and charges from Brat
tleboro - 81 Tedder, KID, 6 pieces,
l Harrow, KID, 4 pieces, weight 1872
pounds, rate 81, freight $3.50, ex-
penses Sill"
S2.66 or 81 cents per hundred for
carrying this freight % miles while
the Connecticut River road brought
it much greater distance for less
than half, OF for SLY, at about the
rate of Is cents per hundred. Now
this is simply outrageous-it is rob-
berry.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
In BRIEF AND TO THE POINT.

Dyspepsi ais dreadful. Disordered liver
is misery. Indigestion is foe to good
nature. The human digestive apparatus
is one of the most complicated and Won
derful things in existence. 1t is easily
put out of order.
Greasy food, tough food, sloppy food,
bad cookery, mental worry, late hours,
irregular habits, and many other things
which ought not to be, have made the
American people nation of dyspeptics.
But Green's August Flower has done a
wonderful work in reforming this sad bu-
siness and making the American people
SO healthy that they can enjoy their meals
and be happy.
Remember NO happiness without
health. But Green's August Flower
brings health and happiness to the dys-
peptic. Ask your druggist for bottle
Seventy-five cents.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18

question at issue in local politics in most
small towns in Kansas is not political one.
1t is the enforcement or noE-enforcement of
the prohibitory law. Last spring the men of
Argonia did not take hold of the question
with the vigor and determination the women
liked to see. The w. C. I. U. con-
cluded to take matters into their
own hands, They called caucus
and invited all voters, 1t met in the Baptist
church on Saturday evening. The election
was to take place on the following Monday.
1t was conducted in manner quite unique
in political caucuses. The meeting opened
with the singing of america" which had
the effect of firing the hearts of those present
with patriotic fervor. This effect then re-
ceived an extra coating of strength by the
reading of the 146th--or Crusade--psalm,
and a prayer which harmonized with both
the hymn and the psalm. Then the caucus
went theoretically to business and named its
five councilmen and mayor and went home.
On Monday morning a facetious anti-pro-
hibitionist was up with the lark and out with
some printed tickets containing the names of
the five councilmen; but instead Of the eau
Gus nominee for mayor Mrs Salter's name
was substituted. They were circulated as a
gigantic burlesaue. The women of the w. G.
T. u heard of it and determined to turn the
tables on this bold humorist. They called on
Mrs. Salter, who was up to her elbows in
Mondays homework, and urged her to take
the office if elected. She consented, and they
went to work for her like Trojans. Men
dropped their daily duties and helped the
women electioneer. By night Mrs. Salter
was mayor-elect. She had received three
fourths of all the votes cast, and the joker
was in sack cloth and ashes. Little jokes
like that are often fraught with great re-
suits.
A correspondent attended meeting Of the
council Mayor Salter, in a snug street dress
and fashionable straw hat, presided with dig
nity and decorum When she four rattle
tongued young aldermen grew irrelevant in
their discussions she brought them to time at
once. Her followers praise her without stint
which is more than her opponents could be
expected to do.
! The citizens of Argonia, advanced though
they be, can scarcely get accustomed to the
extraordinary innovation of mayor in pet
ticoats They point her out to strangers as
one of the curiosities of the town. Recalci-
trant small boys regard her much as the New
York gamin does "cop." "There's the
mayor!" scatters them like cyclone.
Mrs Salter's father, Oliver Kinsey, was
the first mayor of Argonia, so it rather runs
in the family to hold office, like wooden legs
and artificial teeth.
Mayor Salter is now 81 years of age. The
engraving. taken from sketc'', represents
her as rather severe of countenance She is
blonde of medium height, is slender and
dresses neatly. What is more, she can do
| what no other mayor has ever done She
makes her own clothes. She is the mother of
| four children, and can "outcook" and "out-
dishwash' any mayor or alderman that ever
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18

The Mortified News, rs will be
seen by an article elsewhere, is rath-
er inclined to poke little fun at our
"Octaroon"-7-S printed in New
York and Is in the old "shebang."
We beg to assure brother Whitney
that the '.Octaroon's editor is very
good man. And he will probably 90
to writing letters now to find out
something about his (Whitney's) life
80 or 40 years ago, or what his grand
fathers wife's name was before she
married the grandfather. O., he is
awfully good, brother Whitney, and
he has settled more things than the
Governor question. He has irrevoca-
bly, established the fact that the peo-
pie on these Green Mountains don't
want an organ, even if backed by
Levi Fuller's money.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
What Is the matter,

There are indications in various
sections of the State of a pulling
away, on the part of prominent men,
from the old Smith machine. What
is the matter? Is the old thing like
" to 90 to smash? Are they desert
ing it for the same reason that the
rat deserts the sinking ship-don't
want to 90 down with it?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
Echoes from the Press
Wasting Powder on Chipmunks.
From the Mortified News.

Wasting Powder on Chipmunks.
From the Mortified News.
Some of the state editors have made
up "governor states" in their journals
for next year, while others have been
busy with numerous picnics, includ-
ing the press excursion and Barnum's
circus, and have not had time to get
in any amusement in the way of gov
ernor- making for 'SS. These latter
editors are now cleft" as it We're.
The South Londonderry News, which
has attained the dignity of ''Vol. /,
No. 80" evidently anxious to settle
the governor question, which is be-
ginning to agitate the politicians, and
at the same time do good turn to a
friend, makes the startling announce
ment in italics, that "there is a set
tied determination to elect Levi X.
Fuller governor of Vermont next
year, which is unmistakable all over
tie state, and that the people every
where think that if he was nominated
for Lieut.. Governor on ballot of
425 to 145, against the only COMPETE
Or he had, it would seem odd that a
candidate under such circumstances
should pledge himself not to run for
governor next year."
For our part we are sorry to see
this matter so definitely settled more
than year previous to the Republi-
can convention. We are sorry, be-
cause healthy discussion of the mat
ter among the newspapers and people
of the state at the proper time would
perhaps develope and bring to the
front Nermont's ablest men. some of
whom might be chosen to fill the hon
ored position of governor. We are
sorry, because now we know that the
next Republican state convention
with this decision hanging over it, can
be only a matter of form. We are
sorry that a question that bid fair to
stir up the dry political bones in YER
mont next year has been nipped in
the bud SO early; it is sad to see
bright prospects fade away before
such young Windham county
sprout. We are sorry again, because
we don't know what some of our es-
teemed contemporaries will now do
for editorial matter on state topics.
There is another little matter that
might be of some Importance in an
ordinary case but we suppose it is too
late for next veal. We would gently
suggest, however, to the Londonderry
sheet, that the genial Lieut.. Govern
or Fuller did not receive the nominal
ton to his present office until friends
pledged the convention and promised
the people of Vermont that he would
under no circumstances be candi-
date for governor in 'SS.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
Vermont News.

1t cost s56,l76,40 to support the
Bmttleboro insane asylum last year,
The amount of duties collected in
July, 1886, for the district of YER
mont was SOL 1927; for the July
Just passed it was SIS, 1922.
A distardly attempt was m de early
Wednesday morning to fire the Brat
tleboro House at Battleboro. Luck
lily it was foiled by an early discov-
cry.
Tuesday, one Blodgett of Andover
was fatally injured at Batonsville by
n thrashing machine, which he was
assisting in handling, tipping over
upon him.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY.

the old country with his bride. Arriving
there, he was presented "the freedom of the
city" at Edinburgh and was made the recipi-
ent of all sorts Of honors and the subject OF
many complimentary illusions On the even-
ing of the same day Mr.. Carnegie was pres
ent at meeting of workingmen. who turned
out 5000 strong and presented to hima silver
casket inclosing an elaborate address. On
the following day Mr.. Carnegie laid the
foundation stone of the new library in the
Cowgate, A cut of the library from the
architects drawings is given here.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
Found Dead In BED.

How often we hear or read of some one
that has retired in apparent good health
that has been found dead in bed on the fol-
lowing morning. Anti Apoplectine, arem-
edy recently placed on the market, is the
only known Apoplexy Preventative and
Paralysis Cure. Should you suffer from
dizziness or pressure in head, pain around
or palpitation of the heart, numbness or
prickly sensation of limbs procure of your
druggist bottle of this remarkable med
icine and you will get relief. If you are
skeptical send stamp to DR.. f. S. Hutch
inson & Co., Enosburgh Falls, Vt, and
they will send testimonials that will con-
vince you.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
GEPHYR-

This horse sired by Enchn Rks Ham.
betonan all
lucky CHIEF and he by Mabrno Chiefs and he
families
$50 BETTER them of
shown himself
weighs 100 Mahogany small
shown fair in training He
has been this section stylish show per.
TERMS To insure payable disposed
considered with foal f. THAYER, Proprietor.
Manchester
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
college Widows

That class of young ladies known
among the students as college widows, !"
and commonly supposed to have the ac-
quaintance of several generations of col
legians, is not larger in New Haven than
elsewhere. Let girl once get such a
reputation, however, whether justly or
unjustly acquired, she can bid goodby to
all hopes of wedding college man. A
fellow may enjoy her company; he may
call on her; he may pay her sufficient at
tention to ordinarily justify popular
suspicion of an engagement; but he
rarely or never marries her. Lippin-
COTS Magazine.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
A Submarine Railway Tunnel.

The governments of Sweden and Den
mark are considering plans for railway
tunnel under the sound between Copen-
hagen, in Denmark, and Malmo, in
Sweden. The tunnel, as planned, is to
have a total length of seven and half
miles: that is. two miles between Amager
and the small islands of Saltholm, and
five and half miles between Saltholm
and Malmo. The cost of construction is
estimated at about $4,000, 000.--New
York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
The Peoples Journal saws

"a telegram of 20 words can be sent tC
Boston from Rutland, distance of l67
miles, for twenty-five cents, while mes
sage of the same l9ngth sent to Poultney
distance of but eighteen miles, costs
forty-tive cents. Would it not be goot
scheme for the government to appoint al
Interstate telegraph committee to inves
tigate the matter?"
Would it not be a good scheme fol
the government to establish telegraph
lines of its own, and give the people
cheap telegraphy as well as cheaI
mails?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
A WOMAN MAYOR.
Wamep

Kansas Ahead in the Advancement of
Women.
1t is surely time to wake Nicodemus. The
jubilee for the slaves occurred years ago, and
now women are beginning TO see the dawn Of
their day. In Argonia, Kan, they have
woman mayor, and she is sailing through her
term of office with colors flying. Last spring
Susanna Medora Salter was duly elected
mayor Of Argona; also duly qualified, and is
now duly and conscientiously operating the
municipal machine.
Kansas, as everybody knows, is regular
four in hand state in the matter Of progress
sion 1t carries more laures for radicalism,
in spite of its grasshoppers, than any state in
the Union, or out of it. Within her borders
was shed the first blood IN the war for free
dom. She was the first to ratiry the Four
teenth Amendment She led in the fight for
prohibition, and she is the first state in the
Union to grant to the women OF municipali-
ties the right to vote on all matters referred
to popular suffrage. This carries with it the
right to hold municipal office, hence the
woman mayor.
As in the granting Of suffrage to women
in Wyoming and hundred other important
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
THE NOW THEN.

totally blind, and yet famous designer, and
her owner is Norman L. Munro, of the same
state, whose steam yacht Henrietta at
tracted so much attention last year. On one
occasion the Now Then left Newport with
Mr.. Herreshoff, Mr.. and Mrs. Munro and
their son ON board, and made the run to New
York city in seven hours and six minutes,
though meeting all the eastgoing sound steam
ers and riding their waves. In this respect
the yacht is really wonder, as she skips
lightly over the waves and seems to lose no
speed whatever in the process. In coming
through He'll Gate she reached the wonderful
speed of twenty eight miles per hour. The
Now Then is 81 feet long on the water line,
IS feet over all, with 10 feet beam, and
draws feet inches Of water She has
a flush deck of red cedar, with trimmings of
red cherry, and is finished throughout IN
equally elegant style. She carries two masts,
fore and aft, schooner rig, with low pilot
house and polished brass smokestack. The
bow is very long and sharp, with clipper
overhang, and the stern Is peculiarly de-
signed to prevent deep immersion, the upper
part running outward some distance like the
bow of a steam ram, with the propeller wheel
under the projection. The engines are Of the
triple expansion type, and the boilers can
bear pressure of $50 pounds. The cabin is
nicely fitted up, and the yacht can be pre-
pared for long cruise. The owner amused
himself on the way to Long Branch by out
running the big steamer St Johns, which
runs between New York and Sandy Hook at
a speed of eighteen miles an hour, also dis
tancing the steam yacht Pickett and the
steamer Albertins- Twenty miles were made
in fifty-fve minutes, much Of the time over
the swells of large steamers The owner is
now ready to race with any steam yacht In
America, and give distance.
When an Englishman gets left be is said
to be ain the cart 49,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18

What Vermont needs most is not
more laws, but less. Fewer laws and
more justice. Less "farce'' and
more enactment. Laws which allow
a man to overissue stock and then
claim it impossible to hold him,
though slight technicalities, are not
laws-rather are they vaporings of
minds long past the "dotage" season
even. Give us, not in our State
alone, but all over our broad land,
ustice-justice for all alike-wheth-
er rich or poor.-People's Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
PEOPLE DEMAND PROTECTION
PATENT MEDICINES.

What are theyy As general thing they
are prescriptions having been used with
great success by old and well-read Physi-
clans. Thousands of nvallds have been
unexpectedly cured by their use, and they
are the wonder and dread of Physicians
and Medical Colleges in the U. S., so
much so, that Physicians graduating at
Medical Colleges are required to discoun-
tenancc Proprietary Medicines, as through
them the country doctor loses his most
profitable practice. As manufacturer of
Proprietary Medicines, DIR, G. G. Green
of Woodbury., N. j., advocates most cor
dially,-ln order TO prevent the risk that
the sick and afflicted are liable to, almost
daily by the use of Patent Medicines put
out by inexperienced persons for aggran-
dlzemcnt only, and the employing of mex
perienced and incompetent doctors by
cursed; and the men claiming to be doc
tors who had better be undertakers, ex-
pcrmenting with their patients and rob-
bling them of their money and health
for the good of the afflicted that our gov
eminent protect its people by making laws
to regulate the practice of medicine by
better experienced and more thoroughly
educated Physicians, and thereby keep up
the honor and credit of the profession
also form laws for the recording of re-
cipcs of Proprietary Medicines, under ex-
animation and decision of experienced
Chemists aud Physicians appointed for
that purpose by the Government, before
they are licensed for general use He
would most freely place the recipe of Bo-
schee's German Syrup and Green's Au-
gust Flower under such laws, had he the
proper protection, and thereby save the
prejudice of the people, and avoid the
competition and imitation of worthless
medicines. CAPPED from The Chicago Nail,
.1ag. 3, 'S7.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18

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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
A Singular Tribute to Death.

When leading Philadelphian dies the
shutters are ''bowed" all over the house
that is to say, they are all but closed
and fastened together with black silk
bow, sometimes remaining so '.bowed"
for year after the death in the house,:
also, it is not infrequent after the death
of a member of an old family to see the
shutters of many of the neighbors' houses
bowed out of respect, remaining so for
days and weeks. This peculiar custom
originated among the Quakers, who do
not put Grape ON their door bells or else
where.-Cor. New York Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18

The corner st one of the Benning-
ton Battle Monument was laid Tues
day in the presence of the governors
of Vermont, Massachusetts and New
Hampshire and many of the most
prominent men of New England and
an immense concourse of citizens.
The civic and military display is said
to have been the finest ever Witness
ed in the State. An eloquent and
appropriate address was delivered by
congressman, J. w. Stewart.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
Where the Water Comes from.

Analysis of Brooklyn milk show that
the average article is adulterated IS per
cent. with water. These nlilkmen de-
fend themselves by saying that the
farmer puts piece Of ice III the can, and
when that melts the dealer has to put in
another, and so on, until the water
reaches to the percentage found. -Chi-
caoo Times
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
A FLEET STEAM YACHT.

Norman L. Munro's Craft That Shows
Its Heels to Everything.
Now Then is queer name for yacht,
but the craft itself is double WONDER in
that it was designed by blind man, and is
unquestionaby the fastest steam yacht now
in American waters. The designer of this
yacht, Mr.. Herreshoff, of Bristol, L. l., is
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18

famous S06 who fought so valiantly for Grant
at Chicago. President Arthur appointed
him as assistant attorney to prosecute the
star route cases, but he resigned the position
Kentucky had four tickets in the field this
year, the Democratic, Republican, Prohibi-
ton and Union Labor ticket.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18

things in Ameri-
can politics, Mrs.
Salter's candidacy
began as a joke. 1t
was the bul'leSque
idea of a faction
who had no SYM
pathy with women
as office holders.
The women showed
their power by
uniting their forces
and hosting said
faction with its
own petard, and
they did it without
any difficulty. 1t
was this way. The
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-08-18
In n Veterinary Hospital.

Some queer things are seen in the
veterinary hospital of Philadelphia.
Among others are pigs easy chair, a
padded cell for lunatic horse, Turkish
bath, and swinging harness in which
horse may live Or die without bearing
any weight on his legs.-Scientifc
American.